Filbert questions
- Subject: Filbert questions
- From: G* O*
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 07:26:56 -0500
Our local nursery is having a clearance sale, and one of their offerings is
a purple-leafed Filbert (Corylus avellana purpurea, I think) that is marked
down from $129 to $49. I have wanted one of these for years, ever since I
saw one at the Greensboro, NC Arboretum. Unfortunately, I can find no info
on it, and the nursery people weren't much help (doesn't that just fry you,
when the nursery that sells the plant doesn't know about them?)..
Anyway..The tag says that it is hardy either to Z3 or Z8, can't make out
which. I assume it's Z3 since it is doing well in Greensboro, but still...
What are the mature dimensions, roughly? The one at Greensboro is a large
shrubby mass, with almost a weeping habit as I recall (8 ft high by 10 ft
diam or so, but I don't know if this is mature or not).
What are it's rooting habits, deep or shallow? I want to establish a bed
around it. Or am I better off using it as a lawn specimen?
Anything else critical, such as "You'll be sorry?" ;-)
Gerry
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